Lola Raper recipe book, undated
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains the business, political, and personal papers of Amos Wade Jackson, Lola Raper Jackson, Rowland H. Jackson and Ethel Jaekle Jackson ranging from 1825 to 1979. The bulk of the collection consists of legal correspondence and documents from Jackson Abstract, Inc. and Jackson and Jackson, Attorneys at Law and includes original and carbon copies of abstracts of title, warranty deeds, mortgages, attorney’s opinions, wills, estates, guardianships, divorces, and lawsuits. Also included are correspondence and documents regarding the Home Owner’ Loan Corporation (1933-1947), the Jefferson Proving Ground (1942-1976), the Versailles State Park project (1934-1975), and the court case record books of Jackson and Jackson and Amos Wade Jackson (1920-1947).
Rowland and Ethel Jackson’s family papers include Jefferson Wade’s permit to teach (1847), Samuel and Fanny Jackson’s warranty deeds (1857-1869), Amos Jackson’s insurance documents (1876-1879), Amos and Mary Jackson’s correspondence with the Bureau of Pensions (1877-1888), Mary Jackson’s January 18, 1889 letter of guardianship regarding her children, and Jaekle and Newton family genealogy (undated). The collection also has commencement programs from Osgood Public School (1891) and Versailles and Johnson Township schools (1892 and 1902); a souvenir from the Dabney School (1900-1901); a copy of Parker’s Supplementary Reader (June 1893); the pamphlet, A Plea for the Penal Farm (circa 1912); and documents and publications regarding Ethel’s interests in antique glassware, flower arranging, and local history (1941 -1964). The collection also includes directories and standing rules and orders for the Indiana General Assembly (1911-1917) and correspondence and documents related to Rowland’s service in the Indiana Senate and concerning various legislative topics, including prohibition, woman’s suffrage, bank license tax, public utilities, teachers pensions, and road legislation.
Amos Wade and Lola Jackson’s papers include Lola’s recipe book containing recipes clipped from newspapers (undated); advertisement pamphlets for the “20th Century Cake Beater and Dough Kneader” manufactured by B. J. Spilker of Cincinnati (circa 1890s) and “The Hamilton” mixer manufactured by Hamilton and Sons of Huntsville, Alabama (circa 1908); Sheet music for the song, “Dreaming (Today I am Dreaming)” by Newman Byard (1937); Indiana Federation of Art Clubs yearbooks and programs and documents regarding Indiana art exhibits (1941-1972); Lola’s undated handwritten transcriptions of three Civil War letters send by William C. Austin (1826-1865) of Company I, 82nd Indiana Volunteer Regiment to his family in Dearborn County, Indiana; announcements, invitations, and greeting cards from friends, business associates, and politicians, including Birch Bayh, Vance Hartke, and Lee Hamilton (1959-1970s); correspondence and documents regarding the sale of their Merritt Island, Florida real estate to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the expansion of Cape Canaveral (1941-1963); and various publications and advertisements, including The Hoosier Day weekly newsletter (1959), The Hoosier Annual (1962), a Wm. H. Block Company advertisement for McCalls patterns with 1961 Miss America Nancy Anne Fleming, a 1964 Murat Shrine Circus program, and a brochure for the proposed James Whitcomb Riley Center (circa 1963). The collection also includes various documents regarding anti-communism and patriotism (1956-1966), Democratic politics and elections (1938-1970), and Judge Jackson’s documents regarding judicial and legislative topics, including water fluoridation and gun control (1935-1972).
There are also oversize folders containing documents, certificates, ephemera, maps, architectural drawings and blueprints, a nautical chart. Folder 1 of OBC102 contains Rowland’s certificate of appointment to the local draft board (June 20, 1918) and several of Amos Wade’s certificates: his initiation into Theta Kappa Nu (October 11, 1924); his Hanover College Diploma (June 1926); his certifications as a “duly admitted and qualified” attorney to appear before the Southern Indiana District Court (May 28, 1930), Eastern Kentucky District (May 25, 1940) and United States Supreme Court (October 23, 1943); his appointment as a government appeal agent for Local Board No. 69, Indiana (September 20, 1948); his election as Judge of the Indiana Supreme Court (December 2, 1958); his initiation into the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity – Ralph Hamill Chapter (May 9, 1961); a “Sagamore of the Wabash” certificate by Indiana Governor Matthew E. Welsh (December 21, 1961); his commission as a Kentucky colonel (September 23, 1969); and one verifying his membership in the American Judicature Society (undated).
Folder 2 of OBC102 includes the front page of the February 16, 1898 Indianapolis News with stories of the Battleship Maine; copies of the Pikes Peak Daily News (October 2, 1902) and The Pan-American (September 1904); a Radio Circular Company’s “Bargain Bulletin” (February 1930); one page from Indiana Rural News with an article regarding the Chain O’Lakes on one side and pictures of statewide 4-H achievement winners on the reverse side (August 1969); a double-page spread political advertisement for Matthew E. Welsh from his 1972 gubernatorial campaign; and a 24 page handbook for Democratic precinct workers, printed on 6 pages and uncut (circa 1964).
Folder OBD028 contains Ripley County maps (1929-1930); maps of the part of the War Emergency Pipeline that was built between Middleton, Ohio to Morris, Illinois and passed through Laughery Township, Ripley County, Indiana (1942); architectural drawings for a proposed law office (1958) and proposed alterations to Suites 304 and 305 of the Indiana State House (circa 1962); blueprints for “The Burr Cottage,” a cabin designed by William and Dora Burr for the Twin Hills Tuberculosis Camp at Terre Haute, Indiana (undated); and a Palm Shores to West Palm Beach nautical chart (September 1970).
Rowland and Ethel Jackson’s family papers include Jefferson Wade’s permit to teach (1847), Samuel and Fanny Jackson’s warranty deeds (1857-1869), Amos Jackson’s insurance documents (1876-1879), Amos and Mary Jackson’s correspondence with the Bureau of Pensions (1877-1888), Mary Jackson’s January 18, 1889 letter of guardianship regarding her children, and Jaekle and Newton family genealogy (undated). The collection also has commencement programs from Osgood Public School (1891) and Versailles and Johnson Township schools (1892 and 1902); a souvenir from the Dabney School (1900-1901); a copy of Parker’s Supplementary Reader (June 1893); the pamphlet, A Plea for the Penal Farm (circa 1912); and documents and publications regarding Ethel’s interests in antique glassware, flower arranging, and local history (1941 -1964). The collection also includes directories and standing rules and orders for the Indiana General Assembly (1911-1917) and correspondence and documents related to Rowland’s service in the Indiana Senate and concerning various legislative topics, including prohibition, woman’s suffrage, bank license tax, public utilities, teachers pensions, and road legislation.
Amos Wade and Lola Jackson’s papers include Lola’s recipe book containing recipes clipped from newspapers (undated); advertisement pamphlets for the “20th Century Cake Beater and Dough Kneader” manufactured by B. J. Spilker of Cincinnati (circa 1890s) and “The Hamilton” mixer manufactured by Hamilton and Sons of Huntsville, Alabama (circa 1908); Sheet music for the song, “Dreaming (Today I am Dreaming)” by Newman Byard (1937); Indiana Federation of Art Clubs yearbooks and programs and documents regarding Indiana art exhibits (1941-1972); Lola’s undated handwritten transcriptions of three Civil War letters send by William C. Austin (1826-1865) of Company I, 82nd Indiana Volunteer Regiment to his family in Dearborn County, Indiana; announcements, invitations, and greeting cards from friends, business associates, and politicians, including Birch Bayh, Vance Hartke, and Lee Hamilton (1959-1970s); correspondence and documents regarding the sale of their Merritt Island, Florida real estate to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the expansion of Cape Canaveral (1941-1963); and various publications and advertisements, including The Hoosier Day weekly newsletter (1959), The Hoosier Annual (1962), a Wm. H. Block Company advertisement for McCalls patterns with 1961 Miss America Nancy Anne Fleming, a 1964 Murat Shrine Circus program, and a brochure for the proposed James Whitcomb Riley Center (circa 1963). The collection also includes various documents regarding anti-communism and patriotism (1956-1966), Democratic politics and elections (1938-1970), and Judge Jackson’s documents regarding judicial and legislative topics, including water fluoridation and gun control (1935-1972).
There are also oversize folders containing documents, certificates, ephemera, maps, architectural drawings and blueprints, a nautical chart. Folder 1 of OBC102 contains Rowland’s certificate of appointment to the local draft board (June 20, 1918) and several of Amos Wade’s certificates: his initiation into Theta Kappa Nu (October 11, 1924); his Hanover College Diploma (June 1926); his certifications as a “duly admitted and qualified” attorney to appear before the Southern Indiana District Court (May 28, 1930), Eastern Kentucky District (May 25, 1940) and United States Supreme Court (October 23, 1943); his appointment as a government appeal agent for Local Board No. 69, Indiana (September 20, 1948); his election as Judge of the Indiana Supreme Court (December 2, 1958); his initiation into the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity – Ralph Hamill Chapter (May 9, 1961); a “Sagamore of the Wabash” certificate by Indiana Governor Matthew E. Welsh (December 21, 1961); his commission as a Kentucky colonel (September 23, 1969); and one verifying his membership in the American Judicature Society (undated).
Folder 2 of OBC102 includes the front page of the February 16, 1898 Indianapolis News with stories of the Battleship Maine; copies of the Pikes Peak Daily News (October 2, 1902) and The Pan-American (September 1904); a Radio Circular Company’s “Bargain Bulletin” (February 1930); one page from Indiana Rural News with an article regarding the Chain O’Lakes on one side and pictures of statewide 4-H achievement winners on the reverse side (August 1969); a double-page spread political advertisement for Matthew E. Welsh from his 1972 gubernatorial campaign; and a 24 page handbook for Democratic precinct workers, printed on 6 pages and uncut (circa 1964).
Folder OBD028 contains Ripley County maps (1929-1930); maps of the part of the War Emergency Pipeline that was built between Middleton, Ohio to Morris, Illinois and passed through Laughery Township, Ripley County, Indiana (1942); architectural drawings for a proposed law office (1958) and proposed alterations to Suites 304 and 305 of the Indiana State House (circa 1962); blueprints for “The Burr Cottage,” a cabin designed by William and Dora Burr for the Twin Hills Tuberculosis Camp at Terre Haute, Indiana (undated); and a Palm Shores to West Palm Beach nautical chart (September 1970).
Dates
- 1825-1979
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 13.38 Cubic Feet (39 manuscript boxes, 1 half size manuscript box, 3 oversize folders)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Jackson, Amos W. (Amos Wade), 1904-1972 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Repository
Contact:
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 U.S.A.
317-232-3671
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 U.S.A.
317-232-3671
